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No Manual configuration of drives is allowed in BIOS.
Tried Auto Detect. This had no effect.
For all drives that aren't detected in bios, I have forced to NONE (even 4th device where SSD is plugged, this seems to have no effect on Windows ability to see drive).

Originally Posted by eqyubixe3d

If you don't have more IDE devices than two and they are on the same IDE channel, you could try disabling the other one just in case (ex: disable Primary IDE if you only use the secondary).
IIRC with that, you should lose the third and fourth devices in Windows. On my old P4P800 mobo, this option was mostly there because Win98 could not see more than four IDE devices, but I did it as well when I had XP just to be sure and never had any issues with 2 SATA hard drives and 2 IDE optical drives plugged in.

An SSD might be another story though, and you probably can't change the mode because older mobos only used IDE mode for SATA devices (probably to avoid the F6 + floppy with drivers when installing XP)

Primary IDE channel is disabled. IIRC there was some connection in device manager between Primary IDE and 3rd device...Secondary IDE and 4th Device.

Also I believe Windows reports both HDD and SSD as running in UDMA-5. DVD drive in UDMA-4

Another issue. SSD comes and goes. Will simply not be there sometimes and will just reappear. It doesn't seem to vanish if I'm using it.. I run games off it just fine. I've read others online found that their power supply was at fault. I find it hard to believe that this would be the issue without some other symptom first. Using Thermaltake 600 Watt.. I've read that though they usually don't supply the labeled power, it usually close but provide clean power levels up to their breaking point...Any thoughts on that..

Aside from that, the performance is great.
Starcraft 2 tried to rearrange its installation. After 7 minutes on my HDD it made it to 0.1% ...cancelled that. Tried the other day copying the SC2 folder to the SSD and re-running the update...the entire process took about 15 minutes from start to finish. nice.

If you don't have more IDE devices than two and they are on the same IDE channel, you could try disabling the other one just in case (ex: disable Primary IDE if you only use the secondary).
IIRC with that, you should lose the third and fourth devices in Windows. On my old P4P800 mobo, this option was mostly there because Win98 could not see more than four IDE devices, but I did it as well when I had XP just to be sure and never had any issues with 2 SATA hard drives and 2 IDE optical drives plugged in.

An SSD might be another story though, and you probably can't change the mode because older mobos only used IDE mode for SATA devices (probably to avoid the F6 + floppy with drivers when installing XP)